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Sermones discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum.

Accession number
PML 77282
Creator
Herolt, Johann.
Object title

Sermones discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum.

Published

Impressum Basilee ... : Nicolas Kesler ... ; Sub anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctuagesimosexto. S[e]c[un]da die mensis Marcij ... [2 March 1486]

Description

[382] leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Gift of Peter M. Mortimer, 1981.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v6v: Finit opus p[er]utile simplicibus curam animaru[m] gerentibus. p[er] venerabilem & deuotu[m] Iohanne[m] Herolt sancti dominici sectatore[m] p[ro]fessum. de temp[or]e & de sanctis cu[m] p[ro]mptuario exemploru[m] atq[ue] tabulis suis collectu[m]. Discipulus nuncupatu[m] Impressum Basilee Sub anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctuagesimosexto. S[e]c[un]da die mensis Marcij Cu[n]ctipotenti aspira[n]te deo Nicola[us] Kesler feliciter consummauit.
Printed in Kessler's types 1:180G and 2:82G.
Signatures: A⁸ B-C⁶ D-R⁸·⁶ S-T⁸ V-Z⁶·⁸ Aa-Hh⁶·⁸6 Ii-Ll⁶; a-f⁸·⁶ g-i⁸ k-r⁶·⁸ s-v⁸: 382 leaves, leaves Ll6 and v8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
With woodcut printer's device on v6v below colophon.
In four parts: A) Sermones de tempore; B) Sermones de sanctis; C) Promptuarium exemplorum; D) Promptuarium de miraculis Beatae Virginis Mariae.
With table of contents: A2r-C6r.
2 columns, 58-59 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 22 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: Ll6 and v8 (blanks).
Binding
18th-century half calf, with sprinkled paper sides, over paper boards (34 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Title as cited by ISTC : Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: A few marginal notations and nota marks sporadically throughout.
Provenance
Ernst Friderich Wernsdorf (1718-1782), inscription (leaf A1r); unidentified monogram: D.Kl., 19th century (leaf A1r); J. Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), bookplate (front pastedown) and monogram (rear pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's 12 May 1914; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Peter M. Mortimer, 1981.
Classification
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Department